MORGANTOWN – Senate Judiciary chair Charles Trump spent several minutes explaining the minutiae of a 55-page, much-amended booze bill on Wednesday. Following the long briefing, Sen. Randy Smith, R-Tucker, in jest, asked for a Rule 43 ruling to be excused from voting. “After that ...
MORGANTOWN – The Senate Transportation Committee took a House bill offering coal companies a potential $50,000 tax break for making road improvements and expanded it to somewhere between $50 million and $60 million. HB 4722 allows a coal company to take a deduction against its severance ...
MORGANTOWN — The state Senate held a long-but-warm-spirited debate on Wednesday over an amendment to a bill designed to protect state-owned forests from wildfires, and bring in cash in the process. Senators also unanimously passed a bill to help pave the way for the state's hydrogen ...
MORGANTOWN — The state Senate is making another go at enabling counties with lots of tourists and few residents to raise money for emergency services to accommodate all those visitors. Bills to build housing to draw new workers to the state and to enable enhanced oil and gas recovery for ...
MORGANTOWN – Carbon, trees and gold occupied the attention of Senate committees on Monday. SB 618 would create a state Carbon Exchange Program administered by the Division of Forestry. It would give oversight of the sale and purchase of carbon credits generated by timber harvest ...
MORGANTOWN – Lake Lynn Generation has supplied answers to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for questions FERC sent to the company in January regarding alleged poor maintenance of recreation sites the company oversees around Cheat Lake. On Jan. 17, FERC wrote to the company: “We ...
